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<blockquote data-quote="stonehill_troll" data-source="post: 3513049" data-attributes="member: 27688">I believe WOTC uses Adobe InDesign for their publishing tasks and its a simple File (pull-down) left-click &quot;Print to PDF&quot; - check &quot;current page&quot;, or more likely they just have a macro pre set with &quot;ALT P... something custom&quot; for the current page.&nbsp; The output PDF can be preset to low quality up to 3-color print press quality (high quality) file sizes. If I remember correctly (been about a year or so and don't have a copy of it installed at this work location), the whole TOC sections is nothing more than cross-reference codes to the rest of the documents, very similar to what MS Word or WordPerfect does.&nbsp; So copying into their default HTML webpages probably brings along a whole lot of garbage code.There probably is (like I said been a while) be an output macro for publishing to web, but I believe it creates its own webpage format and would require quite a bit of work to clean it up and fit it within their standard webpage layout.&nbsp; Not to mention that in reformatting it's easy to get things screwed up.&nbsp; PDFing is the best method to get things out to the customer with the exact data and in the exact format you are planning to deliver the final product.I agree that zipping is pointliess for a simple low-resolution 1 page file, but then I am spoiled with Verzion's FIOs, even several megs files are mere seconds to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="stonehill_troll, post: 3513049, member: 27688"] I believe WOTC uses Adobe InDesign for their publishing tasks and its a simple File (pull-down) left-click "Print to PDF" - check "current page", or more likely they just have a macro pre set with "ALT P... something custom" for the current page. The output PDF can be preset to low quality up to 3-color print press quality (high quality) file sizes. If I remember correctly (been about a year or so and don't have a copy of it installed at this work location), the whole TOC sections is nothing more than cross-reference codes to the rest of the documents, very similar to what MS Word or WordPerfect does. So copying into their default HTML webpages probably brings along a whole lot of garbage code. There probably is (like I said been a while) be an output macro for publishing to web, but I believe it creates its own webpage format and would require quite a bit of work to clean it up and fit it within their standard webpage layout. Not to mention that in reformatting it's easy to get things screwed up. PDFing is the best method to get things out to the customer with the exact data and in the exact format you are planning to deliver the final product. I agree that zipping is pointliess for a simple low-resolution 1 page file, but then I am spoiled with Verzion's FIOs, even several megs files are mere seconds to me. [/QUOTE]

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